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- Galahad II .jc
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- The Clarkson Word Processor .jc
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- Galahad Version 2.07 .jc
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- Manual Release 2.03 .jc
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- Key Definitions .jc
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- for .jc
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- IBM PC Compatible Keyboards .jc
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- Copyright &gS 1988 by Clarkson University .jc
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- Preface .JC
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-
- .st3,11,1
- This version of the &iGalahad &iManual discusses Galahad II (abbreviated
- Gal2 on the distribution diskette) for IBM compitable computers.
-
-
- This manual requires you to have little previous knowledge of computers;
- it is a beginners manual. Galahad is a typing system requiring only elementary
- typing skills, or at least familiarity with a typewriter keyboard. The
- first-time user should begin with the "Introduction" and go through the manual
- in order. After mastering Galahad, the user will want to keep this manual
- handy as a reference.
-
-
- The complete reference for Galahad is found in the appendices. Appendix C
- describes the text processing commands, and Appendix E describes the editing
- commands. Once you master Chapters One through Seven you should study the
- appendices. They will teach you many more new commands which will save to time
- in preparing your documents.
-
-
- This manual was created with Galahad II, Version 2.07, printed on a
- PostScript laser printer in the Palatino font of size 11 points with 1 point
- leading. The entire manual was printed without any cut and paste operations.
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- .k2
- Acknowledgments .jc
- .st3,11,1
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- Professor David W. Bray, Dean of Clarkson's Educational Computer System
- made this manual possible by providing Galahad as a worthwhile documentation
- project. Galahad II was created by Professor Bray and Russell N. Nelson.
- Numerous students in my Computer Documentation classes worked on the first
- manual. Many people have since provided their services to enchance this
- document. Chapter Seven is the newest addition to the manual, describing the
- new features which allow Galahad to be used with a powerful laser printer.
- This chapter was written by Carole Burher and edited by Marshall Cline.
-
- This release of the manual was extensively edited by D. W. Bray, and was
- printed by the Clarkson Print Shop, under the direction of Doris Brown and
- Timothy O'Brien.
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- W. Dennis Horn
- Technical Communications
- Clarkson University .i
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- &dTABLE%OF%CONTENTS .jc .b3
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- .t16 &iTopic &iPage .y,76
- .i6 .st3,12,1
- &DCHAPTER%ONE%-%BASIC%FUNCTIONS 1-1 .y,76
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- 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1-1 .y,76
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- 1.2 DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT 1-1 .y,76
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- - The Computer and Printer 1-1 .y,76
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- 1.3 TURNING ON THE MACHINE 1-3 .y,76
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- - The "On" Sequence 1-3 .y,76
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- 1.4 DISKS 1-4 .y,76
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- - Inserting Disks into the Disk Drive 1-4 .y,76
-
- 1.5 ENTERING LETTERS 1-5 .y,76
-
- - The Cursor 1-5 .y,76
- - The BACKSPACE Key 1-5 .y,76
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- 1.6 INITIATING GALAHAD: THE MODES 1-6 .y,76
-
- - Running Galahad 1-6 .y,76
- - The EDIT Command 1-6 .y,76
- - Review 1.1 1-7 .y,76
- - START UP SEQUENCE 1-7 .y,76
- - Modes 1-8 .y,76
- - Returning to the Command Mode: <SHIFT><RETURN> and <CTRL><C> 1-8 .y,76
- - The Command Line: <CTRL><C> 1-9 .y,76
- - Returning to Z-DOS Mode: BYE <KP-> 1-10 .y,76
- - Review 1.2 1-12 .y,76
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- 1.7 TYPING WITH GALAHAD 1-13 .y,76
-
- - Typing in the Text 1-13 .y,76
- - Moving the Cursor 1-13 .y,76
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- 1.8 SAVING AND RETRIEVING FILES 1-15 .y,76
-
- - Saving your Text 1-15 .y,76
- - The Disk Directory: DIR and <ALT><F4>,<ALT><F5>,<ALT><F6> 1-18 .y,76
- - Loading a File for Editing: LOAD and <KP+> 1-19 .y,76
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- 1.9 PRINTING 1-20 .y,76
-
- - Paper: =.W1 1-20 .y,76
- - Formatting: Dot A Commands 1-21 .y,76
- - Printing to the Screen: <ALT><F1> 1-22 .y,76
- - Printing to a Printer: <CTRL><F1> 1-23 .y,76
- - Printing a Partial File: PRINT nn nn 1-24 .y,76
- - Configuring the Printer: <ESC><p> 1-25 .y,76
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- 1.10 SINGLE SHEET PAPER 1-26 .y,76
-
- - Review 1.3 1-27 .y,76
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- &DCHAPTER%TWO%-%PAPERS,%LETTERS,%AND%RESUMES 2-1 .y,76
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- 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2-1 .y,76
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- 2.2 TYPING A PAPER 2-1 .y,76
-
- - Introduction 2-1 .y,76
- - Paragraphing: <SHIFT><F2> 2-3 .y,76
- - Positioning Titles and Headings: =.JC =.JR =.JL 2-4 .y,76
- - Double Spacing: SP==2 2-5 .y,76
- - Page Numbering: NM==n, PN==n 2-5 .y,76
- - Positioning Page Numbers: BO==nn BE==nn TO==nn TE==nn 2-6 .y,76
- - Superscripts and Subscripts: =&P and =&B 2-7 .y,76
- - Printing Process Symbols 2-7 .y,76
- - Review 2.1 2-7 .y,76
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- 2.3 A BUSINESS LETTER 2-9 .y,76
-
- - Formatting a Business Letter 2-9 .y,76
- - Indenting with Dot I: =.I 2-10 .y,76
- - A Command for Line Spacing: =.B 2-11 .y,76
- - The Current Date: =.D 2-11 .y,76
- - Review 2.2 2-12 .y,76
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- 2.4 THE RESUME 2-13 .y,76
-
- - Formatting a Resume 2-13 .y,76
- - Boldface 2-15 .y,76
- - Underlining 2-15 .y,76
- - Italics 2-16 .y,76
- - Bold Italics 2-16 .y,76
- - The Dummy Character =% 2-17 .y,76
- - Tabulating: =.Tn 2-17 .y,76
- - Right Justifying Columns: =.Yn,m 2-18 .y,76
- - Review 2.3 2-20 .y,76
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- 2.5 SPECIAL COMMANDS FOR MONO-SPACED FONTS 2-21 .y,76
-
- - Indenting: Cursor Position Information 2-21 .y,76
- - Multiple Columns Without =.T: PS==Y 2-21 .y,76
- - Review 2.4 2-23 .y,76
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- 2.6 TIPS ON FORMATTING AND PRINTING 2-24 .y,76
-
- - Unindent: =.U 2-24 .y,76
- - Next Page: =.G 2-25 .y,76
- - Consecutive Files: =AL==Y 2-26 .y,76
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- 2.7 GETTING HELP 2-27 .y,76
-
- - The HELP KEY: <SHIFT><KP5> 2-27 .y,76
- - Review 2.5 2-29 .y,76
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- &DCHAPTER%THREE%-%WORKING%WITH%MULTIPLE%FILES 3-1 .y,76
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- 3.1 MOVING TEXT BETWEEN FILES 3-1 .y,76
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- - Using Delete/Replace to Move Text: <SHIFT><F9> and
- <SHIFT><F10> 3-1 .y,76
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- 3.2 LOADING MORE THAN ONE FILE 3-2 .y,76
-
- - The LoadBuffer Command: <KP+> 3-2 .y,76
- - Displaying Files in the File Buffer: <SHIFT><BACKSPACE> 3-2 .y,76
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- 3.3 WINDOWS 3-3 .y,76
-
- - Windows: <SHIFT><F4>, <SHIFT><BACKSPACE> and <SHIFT><F5> 3-3 .y,76
- - Moving Text In Two Window Mode 3-6 .y,76
- - Making Windows Larger: <SHIFT><F6> 3-6 .y,76
- - Returning to the Single Window Mode: <SHIFT><F3> 3-6 .y,76
- - Review 3.1 3-7 .y,76
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- &DCHAPTER%FOUR%-%THE%FUNCTION%KEYS 4-1 .y,76
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- 4.1 INTRODUCTION 4-1 .y,76
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- 4.2 SCREEN EDITING 4-1 .y,76
-
- - Bottom/Top: <END> and <HOME> 4-1 .y,76
- - Replace: <F1> 4-2 .y,76
- - Center: <SHIFT><F1> 4-3 .y,76
- - Format: <SHIFT><F2> 4-3 .y,76
- - Search Previous: <F2> 4-4 .y,76
- - Search Next: <F3> 4-5 .y,76
- - Search Top: <F4> 4-6 .y,76
- - Show Blanks: <SHIFT><F7> 4-6 .y,76
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- 4.3 DELETING FROM THE TEXT 4-6 .y,76
-
- - Word Del Left: <F5> 4-6 .y,76
- - Char Del: <F6> and <DEL> 4-7 .y,76
- - Word Del Right: <F7> 4-7 .y,76
- - Erase to End of Line: <F8> 4-7 .y,76
- - Deleting Lines: <SHIFT><DEL> 4-8 .y,76
- - Deleting Blocks of Text: MARK BLOCK <SHIFT><F9> 4-8 .y,76
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- 4.4 WINDOWS 4-10 .y,76
-
- - One Window-Two Windows: <SHIFT><F3> and <SHIFT><F4> 4-10 .y,76
- - Moving Between Windows: <SHIFT><F5> 4-10 .y,76
- - Making the Window Larger/Smaller: <SHIFT><F6> 4-10 .y,76
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- 4.5 ALTERING THE TEXT 4-11 .y,76
-
- - Moving Blocks of Text: <SHIFT><F9> and <SHIFT><F10> 4-11 .y,76
- - Transposing: EXCHANGE CHAR <F9> 4-12 .y,76
- - Change Case: <F10> 4-13 .y,76
- - Un-Do Edit: <F11> 4-14 .y,76
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- 4.6 SPECIAL PRINTING CHARACTERS 4-14 .y,76
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- - Inserting Special Printing Characters: <CTRL><F10> 4-14 .y,76
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- 4.7 INSERTING TEXT IN THE INSERT MODE 4-15 .y,76
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- - The Replace Mode: <INS> 4-16 .y,76
- - Inserting Lines: <SHIFT><INS> 4-16 .y,76
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- 4.8 NO-SPLIT MODE 4-17 .y,76
-
- - Turning Off the Wrap-Around Feature: <SHIFT><F8> 4-18 .y,76
- - Review 4.1 4-19 .y,76
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- &DCHAPTER%FIVE%-%USING%THE%SPECIAL%FUNCTION%KEYS 5-1 .y,76
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- 5.1 SPECIAL EDITING AND DISK FUNCTIONS
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- - Returning to the COMMAND Mode: <SHIFT><RETURN> and <CTRL><C> 5-1 .y,76
- - The META Key: <ESC> 5-1 .y,76
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- 5.2 SPECIAL EDITING FUNCTIONS 5-2 .y,76
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- - User-Defined Phrases: <ALT><F7>, <ALT><F8> and <ALT><F9> 5-2 .y,76
- - Recording Keystrokes: <ESC><F7>, <ESC><F8>, and <ESC><F9> 5-3 .y,76
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- 5.3 DIRECTORIES, STATUS, AND OPTIONS 5-5 .y,76
-
- - DIR, DIR A, AND DIR B: <ALT><F4>, <ALT><F5>, and <ALT><F6> 5-5 .y,76
- - FILE Status: <CTRL><F4> 5-5 .y,76
- - OPTION: <CTRL><F5> 5-5 .y,76
- - SCRATCH: <CTRL><F6> 5-6 .y,76
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- 5.4 PRINTING 5-6 .y,76
-
- - PRINT and PRINT PRN: <ALT><F1> and <CTRL><F1> 5-5 .y,76
- - LIST and LIST PRN: <KP2>and <SHIFT><KP2> 5-6 .y,76
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- 5.5 DISK AND FILE MAINTENANCE 5-7 .y,76
-
- - Save: <SHIFT><KP+> 5-7 .y,76
- - BYE: <KP-> 5-8 .y,76
- - Load and Append: <KP+> and <SHIFT><KP-> 5-8 .y,76
- - Entering Edit: <CTRL><RETURN> and <ALT><F3> 5-8 .y,76
- - LoadBuffer: <SHIFT><KP3> 5-9 .y,76
- - Displaying Next File: <SHIFT><BACKSPACE> 5-9 .y,76
- - Review 5.1 5-9 .y,76
- .n5
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- &DCHAPTER%SIX%-%PROGRAMMING%GALAHAD 6-1 .y,76
- .st3,11,1
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- 6.1 INTRODUCTION 6-1 .y,76
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- 6.2 TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS 6-1 .y,76
-
- - The Read Command 6-1 .y,76
- - Sample Key Assignments 6-2 .y,76
- - Reassigning Keys 6-3 .y,76
- - Meta-Key Assignments 6-3 .y,76
- - The HELP Text 6-5 .y,76
- - Multiple Function Assignments 6-6 .y,76
- .n5
- 6.3 MAKING YOUR OWN GALAHAD 6-7 .y,76
-
- - Making Your Changes Permanent 6-7 .y,76
- - Printing Defaults 6-9 .y,76
- - Default Printer Configuration 6-10 .y,76
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- &DCHAPTER%SEVEN%-%USING%A%POSTSCRIPT%LASER%PRINTER 7-1 .y,76
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- 7.1 INTRODUCTION 7-1 .y,76
- .n5
- 7.2 FORMATTING A TEXT FILE 7-1 .y,76
-
- - Sending to the Laser: <ESC><p> 7-1 .y,76
- - Formatting for the Laser Printer: =.STn,p,l 7-1 .y,76
- - Font Styles 7-2 .y,76
- - Font Sizes 7-2 .y,76
- - Leading Points 7-3 .y,76
- - Negative Leading 7-4 .y,76
- - Italics And Boldface 7-4 .y,76
- - Headers and Footers 7-7 .y,76
- - Dot X 7-10 .y,76
- - Dot Y 7-10 .y,76
- .n5
- 7.3 LINES AND BOXES 7-11 .y,76
-
- - Horizontal Lines: =.RHl,r 7-11 .y,76
- - Vertical Lines: =.RBVpos, and =.REVpos 7-12 .y,76
- - Boxes: =.RBBl,r and =.REBl,r 7-13 .y,76
- - Summary of Line and Box Commands: 7-15 .y,76
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- 7.4 TWO AND THREE COLUMNS 7-16 .y,76
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- 7.5 SPECIAL CHARACTERS 7-17 .y,76
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- 7.6 GENERAL NOTES 7-18 .y,76
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- - Special Rules 7-18 .y,76
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- 7.7 POSTSCRIPT PROGRAMMING 7-19 .y,76
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- - Dot V3 and Dot V0 7-19 .y,76
- - TABLE 1 -- Alternate Characters 7-20 .y,76
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- .n5
- .st3,12,1
- &oAPPENDICES
- .st3,11,1
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- &dAPPENDIX%A:%%Cut%Outs A-1 .y,76
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- &dAPPENDIX%B:%%The%Help%Texts B-1 .y,76
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- .n10
- &dAPPENDIX%C:%%Galahad%Printing%Formatter C-1 .y,76
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- INTRODUCTION C-1 .y,76
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- GALAHAD PRINTING COMMANDS C-1 .y,76
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- - LIST C-1 .y,76
- - PRINT C-2 .y,76
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- GALAHAD TEXT COMMANDS C-3 .y,76
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- - Command Symbols C-4 .y,76
- - Command Words C-5 .y,76
- - Dot A Command C-5 .y,76
- - Page Numbering C-9 .y,76
- - Remaining Dot Commands C-9 .y,76
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- SPECIAL COMMANDS C-12 .y,76
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- - Immediate C-12 .y,76
- - Clear C-12 .y,76
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- .n5
- &dAPPENDIX%D:%%The%Gal2%Text%Editor D-1 .y,76
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- INTRODUCTION D-1 .y,76
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- - Configuring Galahad II D-1 .y,76
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- CUSTOMIZING GALAHAD II D-1 .y,76
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- CREATING KEY DEFINITIONS D-2 .y,76
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- - An Example Key Definition D-3 .y,76
- - Entering Key Definitions D-4 .y,76
- - Tidbits D-5 .y,76
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- &dAPPENDIX%E:%%Function%Reference%Guide E-1 .y,76
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- INTRODUCTION E-1 .y,76
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- DEFINITIONS E-1 .y,76
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- - Confirming E-1 .y,76
- - Prompting E-1 .y,76
- - Line Input E-2 .y,76
- - Position E-2 .y,76
- - Search Strings E-3 .y,76
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- THE FUNCTIONS E-3 .y,76
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- - AsciiFile E-3 .y,76
- - BinaryFile E-3 .y,76
- - BlinkCursor E-3 .y,76
- - BlockCursor E-4 .y,76
- - BufferList E-4 .y,76
- - Bye E-4 .y,76
- - CDirectory E-4 .y,76
- - Center E-4 .y,76
- - ChangeCase E-4 .y,76
- - ChangeHighBit E-4 .y,76
- - ChDirectory E-4 .y,76
- - ClearImmeds E-4 .y,76
- - Command E-5 .y,76
- - CommandMode E-5 .y,76
- - CompareWindow E-5 .y,76
- - CutText E-5 .y,76
- - DefaultDotA E-5 .y,76
- - DefaultExtension E-5 .y,76
- - DeleteFile E-5 .y,76
- - DeleteLeft E-5 .y,76
- - DeleteUnder E-5 .y,76
- - DelToEnd E-6 .y,76
- - DelWordLeft E-6 .y,76
- - DelWordRight E-6 .y,76
- - Directory E-6 .y,76
- - DisplayString E-6 .y,76
- - EditMode E-6 .y,76
- - ExecuteCommand E-6 .y,76
- - ExecuteFileter E-6 .y,76
- - FileInfo E-6 .y,76
- - FormatIndented E-7 .y,76
- - FormatPara E-7 .y,76
- - GiveHelp E-7 .y,76
- - GoToLine E-7 .y,76
- - GrowWindow E-7 .y,76
- - HelpMode E-7 .y,76
- - HideSelect E-7 .y,76
- - HistoryEnable E-7 .y,76
- - Immediate E-8 .y,76
- - InsertControl E-8 .y,76
- - InsertFile E-8 .y,76
- - InsertNewLine E-8 .y,76
- - InsertText E-8 .y,76
- - InsertTextLeft E-8 .y,76
- - List Text E-8 .y,76
- - LoadBuffer E-8 .y,76
- - LoadCommand E-9 .y,76
- - Load File E-9 .y,76
- - LowerCase E-9 .y,76
- - Make BufferUnmodified E-9 .y,76
- - MetaKey E-9 .y,76
- - MoveDown E-9 .y,76
- - MoveLeft E-9 .y,76
- - MoveRight E-9 .y,76
- - MoveToBottom E-10 .y,76
- - MoveToLeft E-10 .y,76
- - MoveToMouse E-10 .y,76
- - MoveToRight E-10 .y,76
- - MoveToTop E-10 .y,76
- - MoveUp E-10 .y,76
- - MoveWordLeft E-10 .y,76
- - MoveWordRight E-10 .y,76
- - NameText E-10 .y,76
- - NewBuffer E-10 .y,76
- - NextBuffer E-11 .y,76
- - OneWindow E-11 .y,76
- - Options E-11 .y,76
- - OtherWindow E-11 .y,76
- - PageDown E-11 .y,76
- - PageUp E-11 .y,76
- - PrinterConfig E-11 .y,76
- - PrinterFont E-11 .y,76
- - PrinterString E-11 .y,76
- - PrinterTable E-11 .y,76
- - PrintText E-11 .y,76
- - Quit E-12 .y,76
- - ReadAccept E-12 .y,76
- - ReadCancel E-12 .y,76
- - ReadChar E-12 .y,76
- - ReadDelete E-12 .y,76
- - ReadHelp E-12 .y,76
- - ReadInitBuffer E-12 .y,76
- - ReadOld E-12 .y,76
- - ReadWord E-12 .y,76
- - RecordKey E-13 .y,76
- - ReferWindow E-13 .y,76
- - RenameFile E-13 .y,76
- - ReplaceInAllBufs E-13 .y,76
- - ReplaceQuery E-13 .y,76
- - ReplaceToBottom E-13 .y,76
- - RestorePosition E-13 .y,76
- - SavePosition E-14 .y,76
- - SaveText E-15 .y,76
- - ScratchText E-15 .y,76
- - ScreenColor E-15 .y,76
- - ScreenString E-15 .y,76
- - SearchForNext E-15 .y,76
- - SearchForPrev E-15 .y,76
- - SearchFromTop E-16 .y,76
- - SelectText E-16 .y,76
- - ShowSelect E-16 .y,76
- - SolidCursor E-16 .y,76
- - SpellCheck E-16 .y,76
- - SpellerOff E-16 .y,76
- - SpellerOn E-16 .y,76
- - SwapPosition E-17 .y,76
- - TabToPrev E-17 .y,76
- - TieWindows E-17 .y,76
- - ToggleNumeric E-17 .y,76
- - ToggleReplace E-17 .y,76
- - ToggleShowBlanks E-17 .y,76
- - ToggleSplit E-17 .y,76
- - TransposeChars E-18 .y,76
- - TwoWindow E-18 .y,76
- - UnderscoreCursor E-18 .y,76
- - UndoChange E-18 .y,76
- - UntieWindows E-18 .y,76
- - UpperCase E-18 .y,76
- - UserPhrase E-18 .y,76
- - WindowMargin E-18 .y,76
- - WindowInitBuffer E-18 .y,76
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- PRINTER CONFIGURATION E-19 .y,76
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- - PrinterConfig String Fields E-19 .y,76
- - Unspedified Fields E-20 .y,76
- - Variables For Use In The Fields E-20 .y,76
- - Format of Printer Control FIelds E-21 .y,76
- - Format of Style Change Fields E-21 .y,76
- - Format of Font Change Fields E-21 .y,76
- - Format of Tab Fields E-22 .y,76
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- .n5
- &dAPPENDIX%F:%%INI%File%Syntax%and%Default%Key%Assignments F-1 .y,76
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- THE SYNTAX OF THE =.INI FILE F-1 .y,76
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- GALIBM.INI FILE F-2 .y,76
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- .n5
- &dAPPENDIX%G:%%Galahad%II%Messages G-1 .y,76
-
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- &dAPPENDIX%H:%%Real-Time%Spelling%Checker H-1 .y,76
-
- INTRODUCTION H-1 .y,76
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- - Setting Up the Disk H-1 .y,76
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- USING SPELLER H-2 .y,76
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- - Checking Text: <CTRL><O> H-2 .y,76
-
- ADDING WORDS TO SPELLER H-3 .y,76
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- - Creating a Buffer File H-3 .y,76
- - Adding Words to your buffer file: <ESC><s> H-3 .y,76
- - Saving Your Buffer File H-4 .y,76
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- ADDING TO SPELLER'S DICTIONARY H-5 .y,76
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- A WORD TO THE WISE H-6 .y,76
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- .n5
- &dAPPENDIX%I:%%Form%Letters I-1 .y,76
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- INTRODUCTION I-1 .y,76
- - Subtext I-1 .y,76